Art. 1290. All the rules, established in the present chapter, with the exception of that which relates to the collations, are applicable to partitions between coproprietors of the same thing when among the coproprietors any are absent, minors, or interdicted, or when the coproprietors of age and present can not agree on the partition and on the manner of making it.

But in these kinds of partitions the action must be brought before the judge of the place where the property to be divided is situated, wherever the parties interested may be domiciliated.

Art. 1291. Whenever two or more persons shall be coproprietors of one continuous tract of land situated partly in different parishes, any one or more of the coproprietors may institute an action for partition of the whole of the tract in any one of such parishes.

Art. 1292. When a person, at his decease, leaves several heirs, each of them becomes an undivided proprietor of the effects of the succession, for the part or portion coming to him, which forms among the heirs a community of property, as long as it remains undivided.

Art. 1293. The partition of a succession is the division of the effects, of which the succession is composed, among all the coheirs, according to their respective rights.

Art. 1294. [Repealed. Acts 1991, No. 689, §1]

Art. 1295. Every partition is either definitive or provisional:

Definitive partition is that which is made in a permanent and irrevocable manner;

Provisional partition is that which is made provisionally, either of certain things before the rest can be divided, or even of everything that is to be divided, when the parties are not in a situation to make an irrevocable partition.

Art. 1296. By definitive partition is also understood the judicial partition, made according to law; and by provisional partition, that in which the formalities prescribed by law have not been observed, or that by which the parties are not definitively bound.

Art. 1297. It can not be stipulated that there never shall be a partition of a succession or of a thing held in common. Such a stipulation would be null and of no effect. [Art. 1298. Repealed. Acts 1991, No. 689, §1]

Art. 1298. [Repealed. Acts 1991, No. 689, §1]

Art. 1299. A donor or testator can not order that the effects given or bequeathed by him to two or more persons in common, shall never be divided, and such a prohibition would be considered as if it were not made.

Art. 1300. But a donor or testator can order that the effects given or bequeathed by him, be not divided for a certain time, or until the happening of a certain condition.

But if the time fixed exceed five years, or if the condition do not happen within that term, from the day of the donation or of the opening of the succession, the judge, at the expiration of this term of five years, may order the partition, if it is proved to him that the coheirs can not agree among themselves, or differ as to the administration of the common effects.

Art. 1301. If the father or other ascendant orders by his will that no partition shall be made among his minor children or minor grandchildren inheriting from him, during the time of their minority, this prohibition must be observed, until one of the children or grandchildren comes of age, and demands the partition.

Art. 1302. There is no occasion for partition, if the deceased has regulated it between his lawful heirs, or strangers, or if the deceased has expressly delegated the authority to his executor to allocate specific assets to satisfy a legacy expressed in terms of a quantum or value; and in such case the judge must follow the will of the testator or his executor.

The same thing takes place when the testator has expressly assigned specific assets of his estate, or delegated the authority to assign specific assets of his estate, in satisfaction of the forced portion of his children. [Amended by Acts 1982, No. 448, §1]

Arts. 1303-1304. [Repealed. Acts 1991, No. 689, §1]

Art. 1305. When one of the heirs has enjoyed the whole or part of the succession separately, or all the coheirs have possessed separately each a portion of the hereditary effects, he or they who have thus separately possessed, can successfully oppose the suit for a partition of the effects of the succession, if their possession has continued thirty years without interruption.

Art. 1306. If there be but one of the heirs who has separately enjoyed a portion of the effects of the succession during thirty years, and all the other heirs have possessed the residue of the effects of the succession in common, the action of partition among the latter will always subsist.